Requirements Management and
Communication
The Requirements Management and Communication Knowledge Area is the collection of activities and considerations for managing and expressing the output of the requirements analysis to a broad and diverse audience. Requirements management and communication is an ongoing, iterative activity that is done in parallel with Business Analysis Planning, Enterprise Analysis, and Requirements Analysis. It includes packaging, tracing, managing and communicating requirements for the stakeholders and implementers of the project.
The rationale for including this knowledge area is that as requirements are elicited, analyzed and documented, they must be managed and communicated to the interested stakeholders. An effective business analyst must be able to clearly present the requirements in a format and structure that is appropriate for its intended audience.
Communicating requirements is an important aspect of business analysis because the BA is working to bring the stakeholders to a common understanding of the requirements. Because the stakeholders represent people from different backgrounds and knowledge areas, this communication is essential. For example a business person from the payroll processing department and a developer from the IT group must have the same understanding of how employee pay amounts are to be calculated and distributed. To facilitate this communication the BA must consider when and where communications need to take place, what communication approach is appropriate in each situation, and how each communication should be presented.
Managing requirements involves change control, requirements storage, tracing related requirements and maintaining them for re-use.
The Tasks
- Manage solution and requirement scope
- Maintain requirements for re-use
- Manage requirements trace-ability
- Prepare requirements package
- Communicate requirements
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